Pith Number

pith:FH5TMVI2

pith:2012:FH5TMVI23FOC5Y3FISDI5GQC2C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A New Model for the Milky Way Bar

Hongsheng Zhao, R. M. Rich, Shude Mao, Yougang Wang

arxiv:1209.0963 v1 · 2012-09-05 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FH5TMVI23FOC5Y3FISDI5GQC2C}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:54:40.213940Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

29fb36551ad95c2ee36544868e9a02d0bb8c66530a5b5ac955c0e9750ea1d7c3

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.0963 · arxiv_version: 1209.0963v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.0963 · pith_short_12: FH5TMVI23FOC · pith_short_16: FH5TMVI23FOC5Y3F · pith_short_8: FH5TMVI2

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FH5TMVI23FOC5Y3FISDI5GQC2C \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 29fb36551ad95c2ee36544868e9a02d0bb8c66530a5b5ac955c0e9750ea1d7c3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "05391a0016506a688762401171416c20bc315a83311955c9aee380afd159808d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-05T13:21:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "faef018b63b8488d93d1a5bc0bff0af34cb88673c4e2ade4c1ce99f69bcc6cc6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.0963",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}